What are indirect exclamatory sentences

When a speaker wants to express a more emphatic sense to a sentence or show his feelings or emotions he does it through exclamative type sentences. These in turn can be expressed in two different ways, direct and indirect. The first of them are easier to distinguish due to how they are identified. In this lesson from a TEACHER we are going to show you what indirect exclamatory sentences with examples.

First of all, and in order to understand what indirect exclamatory sentences are, it will be necessary to define the exclamatory phrases in general. Are those that express emotion, feeling, or emphasis on the part of the speaker. The sender of the message wants to show the value of it through their emotions such as surprise, joy, sadness or anger.

In oral language it is very easy to identify an exclamatory sentence since thanks to the tone provided by the issuer we can verify that it is a sentence of this type in which the message is being emphasized.

Direct exclamatory sentences

To be able to elaborate an exclamatory sentence of

direct type in written language, exclamation mark, which in the case of Spanish has an opening (!) and a closing (!). In addition to being accompanied by exclamatory words that will help us to identify them as they can be:

• What
• When
• How
• Where
• When
• How much

They are very easy to identify thanks to the fact that are between exclamation marks and they have exclamatory words to recognize them. Let's see some examples:

• How hot it is in this house!
• We are starving!
• How handsome I see you!
• How you have changed!
• Long time no see!

On the other hand, if we refer to its syntax, It is here where we can find the two types of exclamatory sentences that we have indicated previously:

• Direct exclamatory sentences
• Indirect exclamatory sentences

We already know what exclamatory sentences are and have learned to identify direct exclamatory sentences. Now it is our turn to face the indirect exclamatory sentences that have a series of peculiarities of their own. This kind of prayers they are always subordinate to others. In other words, indirect exclamatory sentences always depend on another sentence that is the main one.

Indirect exclamatory sentences, in addition to being subordinate, are introduced by an adjective, a pronoun or an exclamatory adverb, that is, they always appear preceded by an exclamatory particle that is accented and that they will be the same as we have indicated above.

Due to the above, these prayers do not have exclamation marks, since the identification is made by means of the exclamatory particles, meaning the intention of the speaker. In order to better understand what indirect exclamatory sentences are, we are going to propose a series of examples that will help you identify them within a sentence. Take note of the following phrases:

You have no idea as it was all when we got back from vacation.

In this case we can distinguish two statements, the first of them is You have no idea, this is the main sentence and it depends on her how was everything when we returned from vacation. As you can see, the prayer does not have exclamation marks, but despite this we can see that it is an exclamatory sentence, yes, indirect. Although the exclamation marks are not shown, we can see that the subordinate clause appears introduced by the particle as which indicates that the message that follows is exclamatory.

Other examples that come to denote the same thing introduced by different particles could be:

Only the one who has been through it before can understand what hard is the recovery process.

As in the previous example, we can see that the exclamatory subordinate clause is introduced by the exclamatory word what.

Now you know the theory about what indirect exclamatory sentences are, so you can practice and learn to recognize them easily, nothing better than a series of examples included in statements.

• We had no idea how it all happened.
• I don't think you are going to imagine who has been promoted in my job.
• She is looking forward to telling her what we did last weekend.
• You can't imagine how long it took him to get to where she is.
• After moving in, you can't imagine how many things we had to throw away.
• Look how easy she has to move around the track.
• Imagine what joy I felt when I heard the news.
• When you get to know him better you will see how nice she is.
• Surely you already know who it was that broke the toys.
• It was surprising how simple it all turned out.
• Some do not imagine how difficult it is to live in this city.

We hope this lesson on exclamatory sentences and their examples helped you understand what they are and how to identify them. If you want to continue learning more about these or other issues, you have didactic material at your disposal in all our sections that will greatly facilitate the task of studying. Take a look at everything we can offer you in our section of Spanish language.